The Jerusalem Post reported Monday that jihadists are hiding among the Syrian refugees entering Europe. Citing a report in the German newspaper, Bild am Sonntag, which credits the information to American intelligence that had “decod[ed] locked communications of the ISIS leadership,” Benjamin Weinthal writes: The Bild am Sonntag wrote,“In view of the chaotic...

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In an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic yesterday, a Kurdish intelligence official in the city of Kobani, located in Syria near the border with Turkey, expressed his fears if the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) succeeds in capturing the city. I just got off the phone...

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Benjamin Weinthal of The Jerusalem Post reported yesterday about revelations that an Iranian backed terrorists group has strong ties with Turkey’s ruling AKP party. Citing the work of counter-intelligence expert John Schindler, Weinthal writes that the “dismissal of an investigation into an Iranian-linked terrorist group” suggested that “[t]he decision to pull the plug...

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Omri Ceren writes in the lead article of the October 2014 issue of Commentary Magazine that, contrary to the claims of Hamas and several critics of Israel, the IDF defeated Hamas in this past summer’s Operation Protective Edge. Ceren is the managing director for press and strategy at The Israel Project, publisher of...

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Last week The New York Post published an op-ed by Jonathan Schanzer arguing that the Global Counter-Terrorism Forum (GCTF) “doesn’t hold its members to any standards.” Schanzer observed that a number of the countries on GCTF, including Pakistan, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, “help fund or otherwise sponsor terrorism.” The main focus...

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In Where the Shadiest Players Find a Home, published in the September 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine, Jonathan Schanzer outlines several of the dubious ties Turkey has established under the leadership (first as prime minister, now as president) of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Schanzer observes that “Turkey’s support for Hamas remains strong,” and the...

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The sudden release of 49 Turkish diplomats held by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) since June has raised suggestions that Ankara may be secretly collaborating with ISIS to oppose Syria’s Kurdish population. Writing in the British Independent on September 21, veteran columnist Patrick Cockburn said: Mystery surrounds the...

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The Times of Israel reported Wednesday that Dr. Alan Bauer, an American who was injured in a 2002 Jerusalem terror attack, is seeking to seize the ships that were involved in the 2010 flotilla, run by the Turkish group IHH, that attempted to break Israel’s legal blockade of Gaza. The suit, which...

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This past week has not been kind to Turkey’s reputation as a moderate Islamic state, or to hopes that it would serve as a potential ally against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Multiple damaging revelations have come from a variety of sources—both from political leaders and news organizations. New...

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Newsweek magazine reported today on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS) “organised recruiting network,” which is “operating online and through religious study groups” in and around Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city. Although a government official quoted in the report claims that “all necessary actions and precautions are being taken” to...

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